196 Currency Change (1/2)

”Bang”

The muzzle at the end of the sniper rifle emitted smoke after the shot. The bullet came out of the barrel and flew at high speed directly to its target.

Before the bullet entered the D3's eye, its irises regained focus and stared at the projectile in front of its eyes. It was already too late to dodge, so it tried closing its eyelids, but failed. The bullet entered through its eyes and pierced until the back of its head. Instead of piercing out of the head, the bullet hit the skull and failed to come out. It bounced around the brain creating a mushed white and red brain matter.

From the empty eye socket, the mushed brain flowed out like sticky liquid as the D3's body fell down into the ground.

Jun hurriedly took a Bone Dagger from his dimensional storage and stabbed the other eye. He didn't pull the dagger to make sure that the D3 wouldn't regenerate.

After making sure that the D3 won't be able to reanimate, he went back to the tanned naked man.

”Are you okay?”

Jun became surprised when he saw the man already standing on his feet. He pulled a blue shirt from his dimensional storage, then gave it to the man.

The tanned man waved his hand in rejection and took a gray tank top from his dimensional storage. He spat the blood that accumulated in his mouth before asking for a handshake.

Jun went for the handshake and became shocked when he felt the other person suddenly pulled him closer. He reacted quickly and tugged forcefully, causing the man to become bewildered.

”Whoa, whoa, calm down brother. I'm not here to hurt you,” he said as he raised his free hand. ”I just wanted to greet you. You know, the shoulder bump thing. Can I?”

Jun stared and observed the man before deciding to agree. The floating name above his head was green which prompted Jun to trust him for now. Besides, the man saved his life earlier, and the best he could do was to greet him.

”I'm Jun. Jun Reyes. Thanks for saving me earlier, I really appreciate it.”

”No problem man. My name's Kylle Clark and you can call me Kylle. I just did what I have to do. I'm good at defense, so I jumped in to help. Besides, if you died earlier, there was no one to stop that monster's rampage. With no damager, we would all have died before we could pick that sniper off the ground.”

The man then narrated their journey to the cemetery and even glorified Jun in his story. It sounded like Jun was an almighty hero who mowed enemies wherever he went.

When Jun realized that the man was trying to suck up to him, he innocently asked about the skill he used to block the attack earlier. Jun saw the troubled look of the man and apologized for his rudeness.

It's true that the man was trying to establish a positive connection with Jun since he learned that he was the new Lord in town. From the information he gathered, aside from kill stealing and buying high-level carcasses at above market price, the new Lord was quite reasonable compared to Marcus. This was also the reason why the powerful small groups hiding around town decided to come out and live outside the shadows.

Kylle wanted to gain favors after seeing the numerous things that Jun could offer. With his chance slipping away after his awkward pause to the question, he quickly stepped forward and whispered to Jun: ”Its a skill called Reflect and like most of the skills, it mainly does what it's named off. Any damage I receive after activating the skill will be reflected back to the attacker.”

”Ohh, that's quite a life-saver. It must have helped you a lot. We'll distribute loot a bit later, just let me check on my team.” Jun said as he started walking back to his group.

Kylle got disappointed with Jun's response and watched him walk away. He became pissed because, after everything that he said, he got pushed to the side his efforts in vain.

Marvin was lying on the ground with his eyes closed. His body already returned to a human's while his chest heaved up and down in a relaxed manner. Jun knelt next to Marvin and slapped his cheeks to wake him up.

”Boss, you know that I'm awake, right?” Marvin said as his eyes opened and stared at Jun with displeasure.

”I know, but I can't talk to you if your feigning sleep. Are you okay? Do you need any help?”

”It's alright. Aside from my whole body aching after getting smashed around the place, I just have low energy and I'm currently trying to circulate it on my whole body while getting depressed for being useless.”

”You're not useless. If you say it like that, then everyone is pretty much useless.”

”No, they were able to help to weaken it while I acted as a rag used to wipe the ground.”

Jun pondered, then smiled. ”Quite true. You really got thrashed around but it also helped us gain time. Come on stand up, what do you want? You can choose one. The red one is quite rare, so I'm not able to supply that daily.”

On Jun's palms was a red fruit and a green fruit of the same size.